State Library of Queensland’s open data sets are a gold mine. For the next post of our “Public libraries open Data and Australian history” series, we spent some time analysing the British Convict transportation registers data set. The data set...

We came across a few very interesting data sets recently, and quite different to what is typically found on open data catalogues: thousands of photographs of Queenslanders across time and geography as well as 250+ historical maps of Australia dating from 1552 to 1950....

Only a handful of councils in Australia have opened their data. Our quick research identified Brisbane and Gold Coast in Queensland, Mosman in NSW, Hobart, Launceston and Glenorchy in Tasmania, and Ballarat and Geelong in Victoria. There could be a few more, and...